The Darkon Warriors Books 1-4Legend Beyond the StarsThe PortalAwakening the WarriorsStar Pirate's Justice by S E Gilchrist

Author:S E Gilchrist
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Escape Publishing

On Board The Freedom: Present Time

The sulphur smell grew stronger, burning Janni’s nostrils as she sucked in a deep breath to steady her shaky nerves. The sharpness snapped her back to the present.

A long low grinding metallic noise came from within the bowels of the ship.

Startled, Janni hissed in a short breath and cast a swift look about the passageway. “What the hell was that?” She cringed at the high note in her voice.

The patroller’s gaze followed hers as he slowly straightened, allowing his hand to fall away from the wall. When he turned back, a deep frown pulled his black brow together. “I do not know, but we had best make haste.”

Instead of hauling her back towards the docking pads, he punched a code into the panel beside the door. Once opened, he pulled her inside the command centre.

She stared and forgot the niggling unease teasing her skin. The room was bare except for one long barren console.

What had happened here? Had the ship already been ransacked?

The temperature had dropped to a level so icily cold, her bones ached like an old woman’s. When a shiver racked her body, her captor rubbed his hands up and down her bare arms. She gaped at him but he was busy examining the room. His beautifully cut lips compressed into a thin line while his narrow eyed stare slowly traversed the compartment.

With difficulty, she wrenched her gaze from his face, from where she had been staring at the curve of his sinfully cut lips, remembering the hard press of his hot skin against hers. She frowned and imitated his scrutiny. What was he searching for?

“Evidence.” His deep voice rumbled through her body.

Had she spoken her thoughts aloud? She edged sideways, hoping to distance herself from his unsettling aura, hoping he hadn’t discerned the trembling weakness of her body.

He sighed. “There is nothing here.”

Janni took another step. It took a monumental effort on her part to leave the reassuring warmth of his touch but, hey, she was a loner. She needed no one. She had stopped needing anyone when she had been taken from Earth as a teenager and left to fend for herself in an alien world.

Don’t forget, he’s the enemy. He’ll take you back to prison, a salvager can expect no mercy from a Darkon, whispered her voice of reason. She lifted her chin and gave a derisive snort. “What did you expect to find? People? Hell, this wreck must have been abandoned for years. There’s nothing here.”

“I need to check one more area.”

“Check for what?”

The grinding noise rumbled through the ship and ended with the screech of rending metal. Janni jumped. She sank her teeth deep into her lower lip to hold back the whimper of fear that stabbed like icy spikes into her spine. Sucking in a steadying breath, she said, “Let’s get out of here. This place is like a ghost ship.”

“There are no ghosts on this ship.” The patroller’s smooth voice reeked of patronising amusement.

“Then, explain what is making that noise.

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